Ben Bederson

Professor Emeritus · Department of Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Human Computer Interaction

About

Benjamin B. Bederson is a Professor of Computer Science and prior director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and iSchool at the University of Maryland. An ACM Distinguished Scientist, his research is on human computation, mobile device interfaces, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and digital education. He is also Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Zumobi, a premium mobile app network. He is well known for his work on Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) since the mid-1990's including the Pad++ and Piccolo toolkits for zoomable and structured 2D graphics. That work led to his well known applications around personal photo management (PhotoMesa), calendaring (DateLens) and hierarchical data visualization (SpaceTree). ZUIs have since becom

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 1992
M.S., New York University, 1989
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986

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